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I started the autumn term at St. Bartholomew's Grammar School, at Newbury in Berkshire, on 23rd September, 1952, and during the next five years accomplished almost nothing by way of academic achievement.
My earliest memory is of being allocated to Class 1b, located on the ground floor of the main building near the stairs, where we were assigned school desks in alphabetical order by Mr. Connah. I was seated second from the front under the window and next to the huge cast iron radiator behind Steve Tulley and in front of Tom Wallin.
Many years after I left the school I discovered that the quiet and unassuming Mr. Connah, who taught us the Ancient History of England, Geography, Physics and Latin in that first year, had
made a lifelong study of the Roman occupation of Britain, and had become famous in the archaeology community for predicting the site of the Roman Villa at Kintbury.
In 1952 there were about 350 boys attending the school, but we noticed that each year this seemed to be an increasing. My only surviving school list of 1956 gives a total of 448 boys.
